How Sarah Jessica Parker Became a Red Carpet Fashion Icon

As Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, SJP captured the wardrobe fantasies of designer-shoe-loving women everywhere. But even before she ran around Manhattan in a tutu, she's been pushing the fashion envelope for years. We look back on her most buzzed-about outfits for the past two decades.

1988

1988

Sure, some of the '80s styles were ridiculous, but Sarah Jessica was able to rock the big-shoulders-and-denim-overalls trend in a fresh way. Here's proof that the then-23-year-old actress has always been a trendsetter: she sported her hat three years before Blossom debuted on TV.